Thanks “John H.” for the nice pics …

The main difference is he’s a unibody now and now no longer with a segmented plastic face.

Otherwise, he looks about the same.

The chassis/underplate is slightly different – rare for that to happen when the release is essentially the same except it’s a unibody.

According to “John H,” there is a Dinoco Lightning Storm without a Dinoco logo on the back which I have not seen.

There are now 4 versions with three variants:

SEGMENTED FACE
Lightning Storm McQueen (right) – 2008
Lightning Storm McQueen SDCC Metallic with Painted Rockets and Missiles (not shown) – 2008
Lightning Storm McQueen (left) (no spoiler words on back) – 2009

UNIBODY
Lightning Storm McQueen (center) – 2015

You can decide whether you call the UNIBODY one the main release or the SDCC one.

Thanks for the heads up and pics, “John H.”